January Inspiration Challenges

 Hey there! I am on the road for next month with very limited supplies. This always adds to the challenge. So today I wanted to play with a few challenges. 

Time Out Challenges

Altenew Inspiration Challnege

Stamps:

Altenew Beautiful You

Papertrey Ink Big Bold Wishes

Cardstock:

Watercolor Paper

110 lbs White 

Extras:

Black and Pink ink

Watercolors

Clear Detail Embossing Powder

Circle Dies

Foam Tape

Glossy Accents

Thanks so much for stopping by, Sue.

CAS Colours and Sketches #501

 Hello. Hope you are ready to kick off a new two-week challenge on the CAS Colours and Sketches blog.

I started with the three colors of cardstock that were picked out for the challenge. Using the Ellen Hutson Home & Hearth die set I cut out the houses and white trees. The greeting from Avery Elle was stamped in blackberry ink.  I then glued the die cuts to the card front and added the smoke form the Papertrey Ink Winter Penguin set.

This was such a fun color combo. I hope you will plan to join us for this challenge. Sue

AAA Birthday Card Challenge #45

 Hello and Happy New Year!  Today is my first post for the AAA Birthday Card Challenge as part of the team. Our challenges run an entire month and encompass any style as long as it is a birthday card.

This first one is the easiest anything goes. I used a printed watercolor panel from Stamplorations as my jumping off point. I masked off the top and left side then ink blended away. I misted a bit of water over the panel and blotted the excess to create the mottled effect.  Using various colors of ink, I stamped the greeting form SSS Cleanline Everday set. Then stamped the final time and heat embossed it in gold detail powder. I trimmed down the panel and mounted it to a white card base that I had added a strip of gold washi tape with foam tape. To finish off I added a few gold, pearl drops.

I am hoping you will join us for the "anything goes" birthday challenge. Thanks for stopping by, Sue.

CAS Colours and Sketches #500

Hey there. I am super excited to share with you today that I will be a part of the CAS Colours and Sketches design team for 2023. Do you have all your Christmas cards made? I am as done as I am going to be. So for the CAS Colours and Sketch Challenge I chose to make just a winter card. 

I went back to January of 2022 for my inspiration. 

I started with a white panel that I masked off the circle and blended petal pink ink around the edge and stamped a few snowflakes from the Lawn Fawn, Snow One Like You set. I then peeled off the mask and stamped the critters in basic grey ink and colored with alcohol markers. The greeting is from Simon Says Stamp, Tiny Words set. Using my stamp platform, I was able to bend the greeting around the circle shape. I added some white Wink of Stella for snow inside the circle and mounted the panel to a white, top folding card base.

I hope you will plan on joining us for a look back at the last year's challenges and a chance to win some great prizes!

AAA Birthday Card Challenge #44

 Hey there. Well, I have a surprise for you...I will be joining the AAA Birthday Card Challenge in 2023.  I am super excited to join this wonderful team of creative ladies. For our introduction we were asked to create a card with the December theme of embossing.  

I started with a natural white, top folding card base that I dry embossed with a holly embossing folder from Cuttlebug. Then I die cut a tag from watercolor paper inking the raised portion of the holly folder with a Pealed Paint ink and lightly misting the paper with water before running it through my die cut machine. then I took a wet paintbrush and moved the moss ink around the holly leaves. Using the splat technique and brown Distress ink to age the tag a bit. When it was dry I added the greeting from SSS Cleanline Everyday set and some red glitter Stickels. Then creating a red glitter hole enforcer and adding black twine I attached to the card front with foam tape.

I am looking forward to the year of fun birthday card challenges and I really hope you will join us because really, we all need to send more birthday cards!!

AAA Cards Challenge #230

 Hello. Welcome to our last AAA Cards Challenge for 2022.

What a beautiful mood board for us to play with! I grabbed onto the pink, purple and ornaments for my card.

I used Tree Trim Trio set from Papertrey Ink to create my muti-color tree. I then heat embossed a few of the dots with gold, sparkle embossing powder and added a few enamel glitter dots. Tada...Merry Christmas!

Thank you for spending the year with me creating CAS cards.

Time Out Challenge #228

Hey there. I have the opportunity to guest design at the Time Out Challenges. This is such an honor. We are inspired by a theme and it is Winter/Holiday. I hope you will plan to join us for this challenge.

I started with a white panel that I ink blended a bit of aqua ink then misted the panel with water. The panel was splattered with metallic watercolors. I die cut some snow-flakes from Lawn Fawn out of white cardstock and glued them to the panel. I also cut several layers of red cardstock with the joy die from Lawn Fawn. Then one from red glitter paper. Gluing them all together to create a stacked greeting. I also cut a thin strip of the glitter paper to add to my aqua card base. The small greeting was stamped in red ink from the Bundle Up set, Keri Bradford Studio. I then mounted the snowflake panel to the card base with foam tape.